Elsevier DataSearch

Do you Google®?  More precisely, do you Google® Scholar? Google® Scholar is a great online search tool.

Add another tool to your toolbox …  Elsevier DataSearch (https://datasearch.elsevier.com).

Here is the description from the DataSearch Web site ..,

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Elsevier DataSearch (https://datasearch.elsevier.com) is a data search engine that allows scientists and researchers to search for many different data types and formats across a variety of domain-specific and cross-domain institutional data repositories and other data sources. Results display datasets in a unified way to facilitate finding relevant and useful research data, and allowing users to quickly preview and assess data in-situ before viewing in the destination repository.  By generating previews of the actual data inline (e.g., spreadsheets, images, interactive maps, etc.), DataSearch helps users scan through multiple potentially interesting datasets much faster.  DataSearch indexes both metadata and data to facilitate the matching of queries to objects described in the research.
DataSearch is one of the complementary offerings in Elsevier’s Mendeley Data Platform for Institutions.
Beta Two
After the initial launch in June 2016, we gathered feedback from users to make iterative improvements in the search experience, especially around relevancy and ranking.  Users can also facet by data type, data source, data source type and publication date. Development is in progress to soon allow users to facet by subject classification, based on Elsevier’s OmniScience taxonomy.
Data sources covered by DataSearch now include:
•Mendeley Data
•Dryad
•Zenodo
•Harvard Dataverse
•NeuroElectro
•The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
•ThermoML at NIST Thermodynamic Research Center (TRC)
•PANGAEA
•The following data sources from the EarthChem Portal from The Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance (IEDA) : •PetDB
•The North American Volcanic and Intrusive Rock Database (NAVDAT)
•U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Mineral Resources National Geochemical Database (MR NGDB)
•Geochemistry of Rocks of the Oceans and Continents (GEOROC)
•Tables, figures and supplementary data associated with papers from •ScienceDirect
•arXiv
Many more data sources will be added in the coming months, including life sciences repositories.
If you would like to have your institution’s data repository, local data and /or local active data indexed by DataSearch, please contact us at datasearch-support@elsevier.com
APIs
DataSearch has a “Pull” API that allows users to embed DataSearch results and data previews in their applications. Development is in progress for a “Push” API that will soon allow any repository to push data directly to DataSearch to make it discoverable and previewable.
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Librarian Leverage

Time, as they say, is of the essence.  Researching developments of your fellow researchers on the Web takes time. The time you spend on the Web takes away from the time you can spend on your research.
 
Do yourself a favor.  Enlist the help of your librarian or research assistant.
 
To make the most effective use of their help, I recommend training them to be able to spot the items that will be most useful to you.

Follow these steps to make the most of the talents of your librarian or research assistant.

• Find a book focusing, broadly speaking, on your area of interest
• Buy the book
• Read the book. If, after reading it, you decide it is not quite right, find another book and start over
• Ask your librarian or research assistant to read the book
• Meet with this person to explain precisely which aspects of the technology described in the book are of greatest interest to you

Then set them loose.  The results of their online research will be so outstanding that you will be grateful for the time you spent on training.

Example … Since catalysis plays so central a role in just about everything, you might consider the following item.

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Catalysis: An integrated textbook
U Hanefeld, L Lefferts - 2017
From the Preface
This book aims to be a consise yet thorough introduction to catalysis for the interested reader, be it a student or a research scientist who quickly wants to refresh essential knowledge. The book Catalysis: An Integrated Textbook is based on the CAIA course (Catalysis, An Integrated Approach) organized by NIOK (Nederlands Instituut voor Onderxoek in de Katalyse) for more than a quarter of a century. Since 2001, this course is taught in one week on the North Sea island Schiermonnikoog. It has been the first post-doctoral course on catalysis in the broadest sense ... The unifying concepts of biocatalysis, homogenous and heterogenous ctatalysis are ... highlighted.
Free preview: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=reQ5DwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR13&dq=petrochemical+(integrated+OR+integration+OR+integrating)&ots=1SLJ2a1EDm&sig=1P-mlmh-rv-ZdpikmAbXVi0_DiI#v=onepage&q=petrochemical%20(integrated%20OR%20integration%20OR%20integrating)&f=false
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To repeat … if the first book you identify does not work for you, find another book.

TIP: Finding the right book is KEY to making this strategy work.  While finding the right book is necessary, however, it is not sufficient.  You must follow the other steps to get the results you want.

NOTE: If you are in the unfortunate position of being without a librarian or research assistant, contact us at Jean Steinhardt Consulting (www.jeansteinhardtconsulting.com)  We are quite trainable.

Follow That Expert!

Breakthrough technology often has a person’s name associated with it.

TIP: When you identify the name of a particular individual, make a point of following that expert.

For example, Chunshan Song’s name crops up repeatedly in breakthrough research related to desulfurization.

When you Google® Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/) the phrase chunshan song desulfurization you will see loads of results associated with his name.

But if you are focusing on recent breakthroughs, try limiting the results to since 2017, an option located in the left hand sidebar.

One result in the since 2017 list is …

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[O]-induced reactive adsorptive desulfurization of liquid fuel over Ag XO@ SBA-15 under ambient conditions
F Ye, G Miao, L Wu, Y Wu, Z Li, C Song… - Chemical Engineering …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract: The development of processes for clean energy production with low energy consumption is a central strategy for a sustainable and environmentally friendly planet. Here we report a novel [O]-induced reactive adsorptive desulfurization (RADS) approach for ultra-
Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009250917302798
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HINT: Browse through the list to find other items that CITE Chunsan Song’s work.  An example is the following Saudi Aramco patent …

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Targeted desulfurization apparatus integrating oxidative desulfurization and hydrodesulfurization to produce diesel fuel having an ultra-low level of organosulfur compounds
A Bourane, OR Koseoglu, MI Katheeri - US Patent 9,644,156, 2017 - Google Patents
Publication number            US9644156 B2
Publication type  Grant
Application number            US 15/082,717
Publication date May 9, 2017
Original Assignee               Saudi Arabian Oil Company
US 9644156 B2
Abstract
Deep desulfurization of hydrocarbon feeds containing undesired organosulfur compounds to produce a hydrocarbon product having low levels of sulfur, i.e., 15 ppmw or less of sulfur, is achieved by flashing the feed at a target cut point temperature to obtain two fractions. A first fraction contains refractory organosulfur compounds, which boil at or above the target cut point temperature. A second fraction boiling below the target cut point temperature is substantially free of refractory sulfur-containing compounds. The second fraction is contacted with a hydrodesulfurization catalyst in a hydrodesulfurization reaction zone operating under mild conditions to reduce the quantity of organosulfur compounds to an ultra-low level. The first fraction is contacted with an oxidizing agent and an active metal catalyst in an oxidation reaction zone to convert the refractory organosulfur compounds to oxidized organosulfur compounds. The oxidized organosulfur compounds are removed, producing a stream containing an ultra-low level of organosulfur compounds. The two streams can be combined to obtain a full range hydrocarbon product having an ultra-low level of organosulfur compounds.
Full Text Source: https://www.google.com/patents/US9644156
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